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Susan Brownmiller poses with her book in New York, Oct. 18, 1975.

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  • Obituaries

Susan Brownmiller, whose landmark book changed attitudes on rape, dies at 90

In 1975, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape explored pernicious cultural and legal attitudes about rape and helped debunk the long-held view that victims were partly to blame.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Front end loaders are dwarfed by the coal field at Georgia Power's Plant Scherer.

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  • News

Georgia Today: Georgia Power energy negotiations; New BioLab report; Non-opioid painkiller approved

On the May 27 edition: Georgia Power pushes more fossil fuel use; Investigators highlight "disturbing" BioLab storage; new painkiller could prevent opioid addiction.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
Some residents east of Atlanta were evacuated and others told to shelter in place after a fire at a chemical plant.

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  • News

GPB evening headlines for May 27, 2025

Federal investigators are calling last year’s chemical fire at BioLab in Conyers "disturbing," as new details from the probe emerge.

The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute released a report on the impact of the Big Budget Bill on Georgia Medicaid and hospitals.

State-mandated negotiations over how Georgia Power will generate electricity over the next decade have begun at the state PSC.

May 27, 2025
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  • GPB News Radio
In a grab taken from video, France's President Emmanuel Macron is shoved while preparing to disembark a plane in Hanoi, Vietnam on Sunday.

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  • Europe

A video of the French president's wife shoving him went viral. Here's why it matters

Macron said that the video depicts the couple "joking" and dismissed it as part of a disinformation campaign. Experts say Russian accounts are trying to undermine his image as a strong advocate for the West.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Gov. Brian Kemp (left) signs bills inside the Georgia Capitol on May 8, 2025 as first lady Marty Kemp (right), Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (center) and lawmakers watch.

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  • News

Lawmakers Huddle: A new law will make it easier to get a licensed job in Georgia

Changes are coming for Georgians frustrated by the state’s professional licensing system.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Donna Lowry
NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher testifies during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on March 26, 2025. NPR and several member stations are suing the Trump administration over an executive order directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS.

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  • Media

NPR and Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House

NPR and three Colorado public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order seeking to ban the use of federal money for NPR and PBS.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • David Folkenflik
Shipping containers are seen ready for transport at the Guangzhou Port in southern China's Guangdong province on April 17.

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  • Asia

Despite the pause on high tariffs, Chinese factories still face high uncertainty

A 90-day pause on triple-digit U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods has left exporters and importers in a high state of uncertainty. Factory owners in China tell NPR that orders are down overall.

May 27, 2025
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  • Emily Feng and
  • Aowen Cao

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  • Economy

What makes manufacturing jobs special? The answer could help rebuild the middle class

More than half of American workers don't have a college degree. Is manufacturing a ticket for them to the middle class?

May 27, 2025
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Pedestrians walk through Harvard Yard at Harvard University, Tuesday, April 15, in Cambridge, Mass.

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  • News

Harvard's president speaks out against Trump. And, an analysis of DEI job losses

Harvard University President Alan Garber sits down with Morning Edition, where he doubles down on his decisions. And, a look at job losses within the DEI field among Corporate America.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
Alawiya Zakaria and 1-year-old Sabba. The daughter is painfully thin but now doing better from treatment at Al-Buluk Pediatric Hospital in Omdurman, a city across the White Nile River from Khartoum, the capital city where Zakaria lives. There are currently no functioning hospitals in Khartoum, a toll of the war in Sudan.

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  • Global Health

No hospitals: How war collapsed one city's health care system

Before fighting broke out over two years ago, Khartoum had nearly 100 public and private medical facilities. Today, not a single one remains operational.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
Food apps can be useful because they put more information in the hands of the consumer. But different apps can give the same food different results.

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  • Your Health

Using an app to rate food for nutrition? Take the results with a grain of salt

Food apps can help you figure out what's in your food and whether it's nutritious. Just scan the barcode on the packet with your phone. But different apps can give very different results. Here's why.

May 27, 2025
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  • Maria Godoy
A chemical plume and heavy smoke rise from the BioLab facility in Conyers, Georgia, as firefighters respond to a chemical fire on September 29, 2024.

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  • News

Chemical Safety Board says BioLab fire grows 'more disturbing' as new issues come to light

A new update in the federal investigation of the BioLab fire reveals the company was storing twice the intended amount of reactive chemicals before a fire at its plant in Conyers, Ga.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Pamela Kirkland
Candace Byrdsong Williams has been a manager, a director, and a "global head" of diversity for large and small employers, mostly in the tech industry, since 2007. She was laid off last August and she has seen companies abruptly take down job postings for anything diversity-related.

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  • Business

Corporate America's retreat from DEI has eliminated thousands of jobs

"I just didn't think it would take this long," one veteran head of diversity, who's been job-hunting since last summer, tells NPR.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Maria Aspan
A European Space Agency antenna located at Cebreros, near Avila, Spain, will transmit the waltz into space.

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  • Space

The European Space Agency will beam the famous 'Blue Danube' waltz into space

A performance of the masterpiece will be transmitted into space on Saturday. The waltz has been associated with space travel since its inclusion in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
The flag of Japan (right) hangs outside the New York Stock Exchange on May 5, 2008, in honor of Ryozo Kato, the ambassador of Japan to the United States at the time, ringing the opening bell.

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  • Opinion

Why Japan sees President Trump's tariffs as a 'national crisis'

Although largely paused, President Trump's tariffs present a major threat to Japan's already flagging economy.

May 27, 2025
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  • Robert Ward
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